If you are starting over, maybe you should use RAID6? } -----Original Message----- } From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid- } owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Carlson } Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:18 PM } To: Majed B. } Cc: Tim Bostrom; linux-raid } Subject: Re: RAID 5 array recovery - two drives errors in external } enclosure } } 2009/9/19 Majed B. <majedb@xxxxxxxxx>: } > If you're going to take all your data out, I would suggest you do a } > clean start and zero out all the disks to force the remapping of bad } > sectors, then run smartctl -t offline on all disks and after it's done } > (it will take A LONG time), create your filesystem on an array and put } > back your data. } } I'd recommend running the badblocks program on each device to be put } in the array too, just to be certain that none of your disks are going } to go horribly flakey on assembly and build... I'm not sure if the } offline smart test does a full scan like badblocks would. } } T } -- } To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in } the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx } More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
